McMaster pushes Cohen-Watnick, Iran hard-liner, out at NSC

04/08/2017

The official said H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, "appreciates the good work" that Cohen-Watnick accomplished in the intelligence division of the NSC, but "has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward". NBC News reports that last month, Trump suggested that Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford fire the commander of USA forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson because, as he artfully put it, "we are losing" the war in the western Asian country. McMaster's previous attempt to remove Cohen-Watnick from the staff had been blocked by Bannon and Trump himself.

But the NSC purge has not gone down smooth with the right-wing media, which has been tarring McMaster since news of the firings broke. Soon after his appointment, McMaster had sidelined K.T. McFarland, Flynn's deputy national security adviser and now ambassador to Singapore.

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council who provided information to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) about "unmasking" during the Barack Obama administration, was ousted today.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One upon his return to the White House in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2017.

Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly said that Michael Flynn left the White House in January. Harvey, also among Trump's top advisers, was the first director at the think tank, Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

The conservative Weekly Standard published a blockbuster expose on the escalating battle between National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

In a June tweet, Trump called the revelation that Rice and other Obama senior officials were unmasking members of his team the "big story... the "unmasking and surveillance" that took place during the Obama administration".

Cohen-Watnick served at the Defense Intelligence Agency alongside Flynn, who ran that office until 2014.

Earlier Tuesday, The Atlanticreported the sacking of Rich Higgins, the NSC strategic planning director, after he penned a controversial memo claiming globalists, the "deep state", Islamists and others are trying to derail Trump's agenda.

In March, it was reported that prior to leaving office on January 20, Rice made numerous requests to reveal Trump campaign and transition officials named in transcripts of conversations picked up by the intelligence community during surveillance of foreign targets.

RBI pushes for reinvigorating private investments, clearing infra bottlenecks and providing big thrust to PMAY. This is the first rate cut since October 2016 and the interest rate is now at a six-year low.

Many of them were encouraged to begin the process of coming out by the previous administration, and now Trump is firing them. Trump's stated goal is to prevent disorder among the ranks. "It's unjust and disruptive to strip that away from them now".

England held on from there to secure a famous win and they are now the highest-ranked team left in Euro 2017. England will fancy their chances against either team - but first they've got to beat the Netherlands.

The carmaker had a supply of 104 days as of July 31, which was down from its end of June mark of 105 days. Ford's sales excluding heavy trucks declined 7.4 percent, as passenger-car deliveries dropped 19 percent.

Zimmer has built a once-mediocre defense into an elite unit, which makes it vital that they retain as many players as possible. This is another strategic plan that we put in place this offseason, knowing how many young guys we want to keep.

On Tuesday evening, Bolt once again singled out Van Niekerk as one of the athletes to become the new poster child of the sport. Now he is adding the 200m in London as he aims to emulate Johnson's double from the 1995 worlds and 1996 Olympics.

The bill aims to end the diversity visa lottery, which allows 50,000 people from underrepresented countries to obtain green cards. The bill's supporters, meanwhile, say it would make the USA more competitive, raise wages and create jobs.

He told Joseph to "have another beer", which Joseph said he found amusing and "a decent comeback", though he wasn't drinking. July 31, 2017New Jersey governor Chris Christie make headlines at a baseball game again, taking his show to Wrigley Field.

PMI's are now broadly range bound around the 53-4 level for all three sectors and they are expected to remain around those levels. Moreover, Lowe actually said in his statement the terms of trade are expected to decline "over the period ahead".

In this no-holds-barred electoral war, the electoral Darwinism of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah is proving to be invincible so far. The Election Commission has said that the Nota provision was granted as per a previous Supreme Court order, DNA reported.

A total of 461 suspects jailed pending trial were brought to the courthouse, handcuffed and each flanked by two gendarme officers. The trial centres around the Akinci air base which, the government alleges, was the plotters' headquarters.

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